Designed to support struggling readers aged 11-14 whose reading attainment has fallen behind their expected level, Fix it reading is a KS3 literacy intervention programme based on practical, evidence-based reading comprehension strategies. Fix it reading supports struggling readers, by building their confidence and enjoyment in reading. The Fix it reading teacher handbook, for experienced English teachers, non-subject specialists, literacy coordinators and TAs, will take you step-by-step through the 12-week programme, with detailed lesson plans and practical CPD guidance on how and why these reading comprehension strategies work for literacy intervention. The Fix it reading student workbook provides everything students need to catch up, including engaging texts to read, classroom activities and worksheets. It’s been designed to support Pupil Premium students, as well as students whose progress in reading has been negatively affected by Covid-19 school closures. It also supports learners whose reading age doesn’t correspond to their chronological age, and younger learners who have transitioned from primary school but are not at the expected level for their reading. The lessons are devised for 1:1, small group and whole group intervention sessions or as a complementary resource in English classes. Key features of this reading intervention programme: The 60-page teacher’s handbook includes 12 detailed lesson plans, starter and plenary ideas, homework tasks and evidence-based teaching notes and CPD guidance. The accompanying 69-page student workbook builds learners’ reading and literacy skills and includes carefully selected texts to engage struggling readers. It also includes worksheets and activities to develop their independent reading skills and reading fluency, and word reading and decoding strategies to develop their vocabulary skills. Includes fiction and non-fiction texts on a range of engaging themes, with extracts from accessible young adult novels chosen to appeal to key stage 3 learners like City of Ghosts, Home Ground, and The Hound of the Baskervilles. It also includes graphic novels, news articles, websites, and fact sheets to anticipate some of the text forms and genres of writing English students will encounter at GCSE. Complements our popular KS3 writing intervention programme, Fix it writing, which develops students’ writing skills and provides targeted learning support for students.

Reading SATs practice for KS2 will ensure your class is well-prepared for the English reading papers in their key stage 2 reading SATs at the end of primary school. This pack of SATs papers aims to practice reading comprehension skills through a range of fiction and non-fiction texts and poems and 10 practice papers differentiated at three levels. Based on past papers and perfect for SATs revision, the reading assessments can be used as practice tests in class or for home learning. This pack of SATs practice papers is the perfect revision tool for the KS2 reading tests. What’s inside? Introduction (page 4) 10 text extracts and 10 English SATs practice question papers (page 5) Each practice paper contains: English National Curriculum aligned content domain coverage Text extract SATs questions (differentiated as sets A, B and C) Marking scheme and answers (sets A, B and C) Featured texts: The Explorer – Katherine Rundell Wonder – R J Palacio Matilda – Roald Dahl Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer Goodnight stories for Rebel Girls – Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo Who Was Marie Curie? – Megan Stine Who Was Anne Frank? – Ann Abramson The Short and Bloody History of Highway Men – John Farman Throwing a Tree – Thomas Hardy The Sailor’s Consolation – William Pitt

Our flexible and engaging classroom templates are designed specifically for KS3-5 students, and cover a range of oracy skills. With a renewed focus on oracy from Ofsted and the DfE in 2023, spoken language is one of the cornerstones of teaching and learning in the National Curriculum, and key to school improvement. Using our oracy templates, you’ll be able to provide your KS3, GCSE and A-level students with a solid foundation in communication skills that will benefit them throughout their academic and professional lives: teach students how to structure their ideas and arguments effectively and coherently encourage students to listen actively and respond positively to different points of view help students to develop their critical thinking skills build confidence in public speaking. Our templates come with clear teaching instructions and examples, making it easy for you to incorporate them into your lesson plans. Suitable for small group or whole-class activities, these oracy activities help to develop students’ language skills and their overall confidence in speaking in class. The oracy templates are customisable, so you can adapt them to suit the needs of your learners, the topics you are teaching, and your teaching context. Our templates cover a range of skills, from active listening to persuasive speaking, and can be easily adapted to suit different subjects and learning levels. Whatever your subject area or year group, you’ll find ideas for modelling effective group discussion, using different types of questions, including Socratic questions, and helping students to recognise different tones of voice through role-play activities. Whether you’re a new or experienced teacher, our downloadable whole-school oracy templates will enhance your teaching and benefit your students. These oracy skills are based on an established oracy framework and oracy-based pedagogy from Voice21 and Oracy Cambridge which focuses on four foundational oracy skills for young people: physical, linguistic, cognitive, and social and emotional. What’s included? There are 15 printable templates included in this 40-page downloadable pack, ranging from oracy starters and icebreakers to classroom activities and complete lesson ideas to develop students’ speaking skills. Introduction for teachers Oracy skills template Now you’re talking template Recognising tone templates ABCD template Taboo template ‘Speak like an expert’ template Word dice template Fortune teller templates Socratic questioning template Hexagon templates Summarising templates Think, pair, share template Debating skills templates Pick and mix oracy Oracy tracker templates About the writer Sarah Davies is a former Head of English and lead examiner, now an assistant headteacher in a MAT and an ECT (Early Career Teacher) Mentor. She’s also the author of Talking about Oracy (John Catt, 2020).

Diversify your KS3 English curriculum with 12 lessons on 6 brilliant short stories, from wonderful writers including Alex Wheatle, Langston Hughes, Dorothy Koomson, Bali Rai, Jeffrey Boakye and Kit de Waal. Our KS3 short stories teaching pack celebrates the work of Black and Asian writers and the short story as a unique form of literature. Introduce your students to a range of exciting literary voices they may not have encountered before with an engaging and inclusive scheme of learning, plus lesson plans and classroom resources. Engaging and accessible for year 7, 8 and 9 readers, these powerful short stories have been specifically chosen to encourage more reading for pleasure and to be more representative and inclusive. About the selected stories and authors All the selected stories are written by Black British and British Asian authors, with the exception of the celebrated Black American short story writer, Langston Hughes, whose unforgettable 20th-century story, ‘Thank you, Ma’am’, also features in this anthology. The other five stories are contemporary, 21st-century stories and include new writers such as Jeffrey Boakye. The settings range from New York in the 1950s to a science-fiction future world. Some of the stories have more familiar family or teenage contexts, but all share a focus on relationships and explore themes of race, identity and belonging, love and loss, and redemption. The collection is divided into three groups for thematic teaching, allowing teachers to dip into the teaching pack to complement an existing scheme of learning, or to teach the stories as a complete short story anthology. What’s included in the teaching pack? Written by two experienced English teachers, the teaching pack includes a detailed scheme of learning with lesson plans, teaching notes, differentiation suggestions and homework activities, as well as printable classroom resources. The 109-page photocopiable teaching pack is student-facing for use in the classroom, and is accompanied by 12 PPT lessons for classroom delivery, and 6 complete short stories for reading in class. Each lesson includes: Do now activity Starter activity 3-4 main lesson activities Plenary Extension or homework tasks Many of the activities are carefully scaffolded, with differentiated, ladder up support and sentence starters for writing tasks, as well as a range of stretch and challenge suggestions for early finishers and higher-attaining students. The pack includes a lovely range of fun and creative tasks, as well as a focus on developing learners’ reading comprehension and analytical writing skills. It also includes drama activities and engaging speaking and listening tasks to encourage lots of animated, on-topic classroom talk. There’s also a list of diverse reading recommendations so teacher can encourage more reading for pleasure, and a word bank to help with disciplinary literacy and vocabulary development.

English homework activities for year 7 is designed to ensure you have all your homework activities for year 7 English in one place. Including differentiated tasks for reading, writing and SPaG, there’s a task for every week of the school year. Whether you use it as a homework workbook or dip in and out, it’s perfect for teachers, home tutors and teaching assistants of year 7 students. The pack is identical to the Home Learning for year 6 – English pack on Teachit Primary: it has been specially adapted for year 7 students to consolidate KS2 prior learning. What’s included 39 photocopiable tasks, differentiated where appropriate mapped to the NC objectives for year 5/6 answers where relevant teacher’s tick list to keep track of work set. What’s inside Teaching notes (page 4) Section 1 – student section Reading resources (pages 5-36) Comprehension resources Book review resources Poetry performance resources Different genres resources Figurative language resources Writing resources (pages 37-67) Resource – proofreading Resource – assessing a piece of writing Resource – describing characters Resource – describing settings Resource – the plot Resource – the big write Resource – a newspaper report Resource – persuasive writing Resource – formal or informal? Resource – a précis Resource – advice for year 6 Resource – your school report Spelling, punctuation and grammar resources (pages 68-100) Resource – prefixes and suffixes Resource – homophones Resource – using a dictionary and thesaurus Resource – a conversation Resource – parenthesis Spelling resources Resource – passive verbs Resource – relative clauses Resource – lists Resource – modal verbs Resource – avoiding ambiguity Resource – the perfect tense Resource – expanded noun phrases and independent clauses Section 2 – teacher section Teacher’s tick list (pages 101-103) Answers Reading (pages 104-110) Comprehension resources Figurative language resources Writing (pages 11-112) Proofreading resources Spelling, punctuation and grammar (pages 113-129) Resource – prefixes and suffixes Resource – homophones Resource – using a dictionary and thesaurus Resource – parenthesis Spelling resources Resource – passive verbs Resource – relative clauses Resource – lists Resource – modal verbs Resource – avoiding ambiguity Resource – the perfect tense Resource – expanded noun phrases and independent clauses

Structured intervention support to improve students’ writing Fix it writing has been designed to support English teachers, non-specialist teachers and teaching assistants in identifying and ‘fixing’ problems in students’ writing. It’s ideal for targeted support and intervention sessions at KS2 and KS3. The photocopiable, downloadable teacher handbook provides a structured sequence of 26 teaching sessions and resources, with detailed guidance on how to deliver these sessions to develop students’ core skills. It includes chapters on: writing and punctuating sentences; planning, organising and linking ideas and paragraphs and choosing effective words. The photocopiable student workbook includes all the classroom activities and resources to accompany the teacher handbook, enabling students to improve and build on their core writing skills. You may also be interested in Fix it reading, Teachit’s reading intervention programme for KS3 students. What’s inside the teacher handbook? Introduction (pages 4-25) Progression in writing: a framework Summary of the Fix it writing skill focuses Making sense of students’ writing Setting targets and planning sessions Fix it session structure Getting the most out of Fix it Chapter 1: Writing and punctuating sentences (pages 26-36) Session 1: Capital letters and full stops Session 2: Ending sentences Ways to improve Chapter 2: Using conjunctions (pages 37-49) Session 1: Varying conjunctions Session 2: To suit purpose Ways to improve Chapter 3: Using commas (pages 50-66) Session 1: Lists and clarity Session 2: Clarity and effect Ways to improve Chapter 4: Varying sentences (pages 67-82) Session 1: Sentence starts and word order Session 2: Varying for effect Ways to improve Chapter 5: Expanding sentences (pages 83-97) Session 1: Adding detail Session 2: Relative clauses Ways to improve Chapter 6: Using verbs (pages 98-108) Session 1: Identifying verbs Session 2: The past Ways to improve Chapter 7: Generating and sorting ideas (pages 109-120) Session 1: Non-fiction Session 2: Fiction Ways to improve Chapter 8: Sequencing and organising texts (pages 121-132) Session 1: Non-fiction Session 2: Fiction Ways to improve Chapter 9: Organising paragraphs (pages 133-144) Session 1: Topic sentences Session 2: Writing paragraphs Ways to improve Chapter 10: Cohesive devices (pages 145-157) Session 1: To suit purpose Session 2: Comparing and contrasting Ways to improve Chapter 11: Linking paragraphs (pages 158-171) Session 1: Adverbs and determiners Session 2: Making comparisons Ways to improve Chapter 12: Writing formally (pages 172-180) Session 1: Choosing the right words Session 2: Choosing the right tone Ways to improve Chapter 13: Choosing effective words (pages 181-190) Session 1: Setting and atmosphere Session 2: Creating atmosphere/characters Ways to improve

Dyslexia toolkit aims to help subject teachers, form tutors and teaching assistants to support dyslexic students in the mainstream classroom at key stage 3 and key stage 4. Whatever your role in supporting students with dyslexia, this toolkit will give you understanding, tangible ideas and practical strategies to enable young people to realise their full potential. What’s included? This 56-page toolkit includes: information about neurodiversity, the strengths of neurodivergent people and some of the challenges they face information about dyslexia and how to identify it in the classroom a CPD PowerPoint for staff training, parents’ evenings and senior leadership meetings advice on avoiding sensory overload games to develop learners’ short-term and working memory templates for sentence starters, task maps and writing planners to reduce the load on learners’ working memory guidance on chunking tasks into manageable steps to help students to process information dyslexia strategies for reading writing strategies for students with dyslexia information about the link between a weak working memory and spelling difficulties, plus dyslexia spelling strategies strategies for supporting students with dyslexia in the maths classroom top tips on harnessing dyslexic strengths such as empathy and problem solving How does it support dyslexic students? Dyslexia toolkit offers dyslexia-friendly strategies that can be used with the whole class so that neurodivergent learners are not put on the spot. There are also approaches that can be carried out in small groups, and suggestions for how dyslexic students can support their classmates, fostering a supportive learning environment and helping young people to feel empowered. Information and activities are provided to raise awareness of what it feels like to have dyslexia, and ways are suggested of playing to dyslexic learners’ strengths. The toolkit includes tick lists for learners to articulate their own areas of challenge and learning preferences, and it provides printable resources to help students to plan written tasks. There is also a step-by-step guide for students to reading for comprehension and an overview of pros and cons of assistive technology such as electronic readers. About the writer Dyslexia toolkit was written by Dr Helen Ross, a leading voice on dyslexia within UK education. She is an experienced public speaker, international consultant and researcher, and contributor to a wide range of publications; Helen is also dyslexic. She supports families, teachers and organisations to better understand the implications of dyslexia, neurodiversity and special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). In this toolkit, Helen draws on her experiences as a classroom teacher, SENDCo and dyslexia expert to help you to understand what dyslexia is, which aspects of learning can be affected by dyslexia and what you can do to support dyslexic learners.

What’s included? KS3/4 Mastering spelling punctuation and grammar is a comprehensive SPaG pack containing resources, worksheets and activities designed to help students master the essentials of SPaG and get them GCSE-ready. Mastering spelling, punctuation and grammar contains: curriculum mapping and guidance for teachers along with further reading and/or useful links and references over 150 pages of worksheets, resources and activities spelling strategies, punctuation rules and grammar games to make the learning stick graphic organisers and A4 posters – perfect for consolidation and/or student revision formative assessments (including self and peer assessments) summative assessments (and suggested answers) to help teachers/students identify future learning targets. As your ‘go-to’ SPaG pack, this will support you and your students from the start of KS3 up to GCSE. Mastering spelling, punctuation and grammar covers the following: Spelling spelling strategies and games the golden rules of spelling a spelling toolkit of approaches visualising spellings and connecting meaning approaches to recalling spellings spelling lists – KS3 and KS4 Punctuation punctuation recall (including A4 punctuation mark posters) an exploration of what punctuation is (and its future) full stops commas colons and semicolons punctuating clauses Grammar using and controlling simple, compound and complex sentences statements, questions and imperatives the active and passive voice pronouns words that multi-task: verbs, nouns and adjectives prepositions and conjunctions adjectives and adverbs nouns and determiners

Designed to support students preparing for the AQA GCSE, our revision workbook Conflict and Tension 1918-1939 revision workbook features revision tasks to cover the complete course. The workbook includes content summaries, recap tasks and exam-practice questions in a variety of styles, ensuring students can revise independently and build confidence for their exam. What’s included? content summaries in a variety of formats recap activities keyword and timeline tasks exam-style questions. What’s inside? Introduction to this workbook (pages 4-5) Topic 1: Peacemaking (pages 6-17) The aims of the ‘Big Three’ Clashes between the ‘Big Three’ The Treaty of Versailles: Did the peacemakers achieve their aims? Who was satisfied with the Treaty of Versailles? Was the Treaty of Versailles fair? How did Germany react to the Treaty of Versailles? What happened at the rest of the peace conferences? Topic 2: The League of Nations and international peace (pages 18-30) The aims of the League What did America’s absence mean for the League? How did the structure of the League undermine it? Was the League doomed to fail? What was the role of the League’s agencies? How successful was the League in the early 1920s? What was the effect of the Great Depression on world peace? What was the impact of the Manchurian Crisis on the League? What did the Abyssinian Crisis show about the League? How did the Disarmament Conference of 1932−34 go so wrong? Topic 3: The origins and outbreak of the Second World War (pages 31-41) What were Hitler’s aims as Chancellor of Germany? Hitler’s foreign policy Why did Britain and France follow a policy of Appeasement? How was Appeasement a cause of WWII? Who was to blame for the Second World War? Exam practice (pages 42-48) Question type 1 – Source A is critical/supportive of X. How do you know? Question type 2 – How useful are these sources for a historian studying X? Question type 3 – Write an account of… Question type 4 – X was the main reason for Y. How far do you agree with this statement? Appendix: Further notes and ideas on sources in this pack

Teachers’ toolkit comprises a range of creative, engaging and effective approaches to support secondary teachers across all subjects, offering instant inspiration and adaptable approaches to enrich your classroom practice. The pack consists of tips and photocopiable templates on 10 themes: classroom management, formative assessment, self-assessment, icebreakers, starters, plenaries, learning strategies, growth mindset for students, time management and wellbeing for teachers. Dip into these ideas to enhance your teaching, support your professional development and improve your wellbeing. You’ll find 49 pages of teaching tips, CPD guidance and templates to help you to develop as a teacher. What’s included? 10 collections of teaching tips and templates Including icebreakers, starters and plenaries, time management and formative assessment For use in any subject. What’s inside? Introduction Classroom management Formative assessment Self-assessment Icebreakers Starters Plenaries Learning strategies Growth mindset for students Time management Wellbeing for teachers

If you’re teaching year 4, Spellings for year 4 does your spelling planning for you. The pack is divided into six terms of six weeks. Each week focuses on a different spelling rule and features two differentiated spelling lists, a worksheet and a challenge. The packs also include ideas for spelling games and useful templates. The pack has been designed to ensure all the planning and thinking is done for you - you can simply photocopy and go! What’s included? Divided into six terms of six weeks, each focusing on a different rule Weekly differentiated spelling lists and worksheets Spelling templates and suggestions for games What’s inside? Introduction (page 4) Term 1, week 1 — plurals with words that end in -y (revision) (pages 5-7) T1, wk 2 — adding suffixes beginning with vowels to words of more than one syllable (pages 8-12) T1, wk 3 — words beginning with mis- (pages 13-15) T1, wk 4 — adding -ly to words ending in -le (pages 16-18) T1, wk 5 — homophones (pages 19-22) T1, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 1 (Pages 23-25) T2, wk 1 — words containing g or -ge that sound like j (revision) (pages 26-28) T2, wk 2 — words ending in -eous (pages 29-33) T2, wk 3 — words ending in -sion (pages 34-36) T2, wk 4 — words beginning with sub-(pages 37-41) T2, wk 5 — homophones (pages 42-45) T2, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 2 (pages 46-48) T3, wk 1 — words beginning with wr- (revision) (pages 49-53) T3, wk 2 — words beginning with anti-(pages 54-57) T3, wk 3 — words ending in -ssion (pages 58-61) T3, wk 4 — words ending in -ous (pages 62-65) T3, wk 5 — homophones (pages 66-69) T3, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 3 (pages 70-74) T4, wk 1 — adding suffixes beginning with vowels to words ending in consonant +y (pages 75-78) T4, wk 2 — words ending in -ious (pages 79-81) T4, wk 3 — words beginning with inter- (pages 82-85) T4, wk 4 — words ending in -gue or -que (pages 86-88) T4, wk 5 — words families (pages 89-92) T4, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 4 (pages 93-96) T5, wk 1 — adding suffixes to words ending in -e (revision) (pages 97-100) T5, wk 2 — words beginning with super- (pages 101-104) T5, wk 3 — words containing ch that sound like sh (pages 105-107) T5, wk 4 — words ending in -ly (pages 108-112) T5, wk 5 — homophones (pages 113-115) T5, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 5 (pages 116-119) T6, wk 1 — contractions (revision) (pages 120-123) T6, wk 2 — words ending in -cian/-sion (pages 124-126) T6, wk 3 — words beginning with auto- and aero- (pages 127-131) T6, wk 4 — mix and match reminders (pages 132-135) T6, wk 5 — word families (pages 136-139) T6, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 6 (pages 140-144) Spelling games (pages 145-147) Look/Say/Cover/Write/Check template (page 148) Word of the week template (page 149) You might also like Spelling for year 3 and Spelling for year 5.

Practice makes perfect! Including eight GPS practice papers and accompanying spelling assessments, PowerPoints featuring key terms and examples and a set of engaging quick-fire challenge cards, GPS SATs practice for KS2 has all you need to prepare your children for their KS2 GPS tests. What’s included? eight SATs-style practice papers, spelling assessments and answers PowerPoints featuring key terms and examples challenge cards marking guidance. What’s inside? Introduction (page 3) GPS question papers (pages 4-214) GPS spelling tasks and answers (pages 214-246) Challenge cards (pages 247-273) G1 Grammatical terms and word classes G2 Function of sentences G3 Combining words, phrases and clauses G4 Verb forms, tense and consistency G5 Punctuation G6 Vocabulary G7 Standard English and formality PowerPoint screenshots (page 274)

Our EAL toolkit is designed for teachers and teaching assistants who don’t have a background in teaching English as an additional language to support EAL students in mainstream classrooms at key stage 3 and key stage 4. What’s included? The 74-page toolkit includes: general classroom strategies to support EAL learners an outline of the challenges faced by international new arrivals fun and engaging EAL teaching ideas EAL activities for new arrivals who are total beginners printable EAL support resources and EAL displays for classrooms a CPD PowerPoint for staff training and meetings a glossary of English language teaching terminology a list of EAL websites for teachers with links to EAL assessment materials. This EAL toolkit will be invaluable for subject teachers, form tutors, heads of year and SENCos who wish to develop their understanding of the learning approaches you can use to support EAL pupils. How does it support EAL learners? The toolkit recommends general classroom strategies to support EAL learners, such as setting up a buddy system with a student who speaks the same home language. It also includes fun and engaging EAL teaching ideas, such as games, songs and role-plays, helping EAL students to feel less anxious about taking part in whole-class activities. It suggests EAL activities for new arrivals who are total beginners, such as labelling images and diagrams, and for those who have a more advanced level, such as adding complexity to sentences. It includes printable EAL classroom resources, such as an alphabet letters mat, phonics mats, word mats, flashcards, sentence builders and writing frames that can also be used as templates for you to make your own, along with printable EAL support resources that could also be used as EAL displays for classrooms, such as an irregular verbs list, a tenses table, a list of easily confused words or homophones, a list of prefixes and suffixes and a list of common verbs used in academic writing. It demonstrates how to adapt worksheets for EAL learners in order to support them with both language development and subject knowledge. It offers advice on how to pre-teach vocabulary before a reading or listening activity and how to help students who are learning English as an additional language identify key words and learn new vocabulary from a reading or listening text. About the writer Our EAL toolkit was written by Anna Czebiolko, currently a secondary head of EAL. Since starting to work with EAL learners in 2009, she has worked with children in every year group from nursery to sixth form. She also has experience of coordinating EAL provision in a large secondary academy.

This GCSE teaching pack consists of 10 PowerPoint files with accompanying photocopiable resources and is designed to improve students’ skills at translating from French to English. Based on careful analysis of examiner reports and on teacher feedback, the pack focuses on 10 key skills, each linked to a different topic. The pack includes tasks for Foundation and Higher tiers and exam-style assessments. Weave the activities into your teaching throughout the GCSE course or use as a revision tool in the run-up to the exam. Mastering GCSE translation – French to English will prepare students for the last question in the French reading exam with AQA, Edexcel or Eduqas. What’s included? 10 differentiated PowerPoint lessons on GCSE translation skills (into English). Engaging learning activities across 10 topics. Exam-style assessments for Foundation and Higher, with answers. What’s inside? Introduction (page 5) Teaching notes (page 6) Lesson 1: Precision (Topic: family and friends) (pages 6-11) Learning activity: quiz, quiz, trade Precision assessment and answers Lesson 2: Time frames (Topic: technology) (pages 12-15) Learning activity: collaborative translation Time frames assessment and answers Lesson 3: Negatives (Topic: free time) (pages 16-20) Learning activity: verbal dominoes Negatives assessment and answers Lesson 4: Articles and adverbs (Topic: customs and festivals) (pages 21-27) Learning activity: one pen, one dice Articles and adverbs assessment and answers Lesson 5: Pronouns and possessive adjectives (Topic: house and town) (pages 28-32) Learning activity: four in a row game Pronouns and possessive adjectives assessment and answers Lesson 6: False friends (Topic: social issues) (pages 33-36) Learning activity: card sort False friends assessment and answers Lesson 7: Connectives (Topic: global issues) (pages 37-41) Learning activity: running translation Connectives assessment and answers Lesson 8: Unknown words (Topic: holidays) (pages 42-46) Learning activity: card game Unknown words assessment and answers Lesson 9: Checking the basics (Topic: school) (pages 47-53) Learning activity: find it and fix it Checking the basics assessment and answers Lesson 10: Common sense (Topic: work and future plans) (pages 54-58) Learning activity: back to back Common sense assessment and answers

This Gothic scheme of learning will introduce KS3 students to the key elements of the Gothic genre, while building their reading, writing and comprehension skills. You’ll find extracts from some of the most celebrated Gothic novels to share with students in this engaging teaching pack, as well as Gothic poems and ghostly short stories from the 18th and 19th century to the present day, including The Castle of Otranto, Northanger Abbey, Jane Eyre, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Hound of the Baskervilles, ‘The Red Room’ and ‘The Raven’ by Edgar Allan Poe. There is also an extract from the exciting new YA series, City of Ghosts, to celebrate contemporary gothic fiction and encourage more reading for pleasure. The key stage 3 lesson activities are designed to provide an overview of Gothic genre conventions, tropes, settings and character archetypes, and anticipate the key themes in Gothic literature to prepare students for GCSE English Literature prose texts. To develop students’ exam skills for GCSE English Language, the teaching pack also includes a range of comprehension tasks to build students’ unseen fiction and unseen poetry skills and their confidence with new texts and new vocabulary. There are also exciting stimulus ideas for creative writing tasks for students to develop their fiction writing skills and comparative tasks looking at two texts. The 94-page pack is student-facing and aimed at year 7-9 students, and includes a range of engaging teaching resources, worksheets and PPTs. There are differentiated activities, with stretch and challenge extension suggestions as well as more supportive ‘ladder up’ tasks, such as sentence starters and scaffolded resources. What’s included? There are 14 lessons and lesson plans for English teachers which include: Do now activities Starter activities Main activities with embedded formative assessment tasks, learning checks and reading comprehension questions Plenaries Homework tasks. Each lesson is accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation, and the teaching pack also includes the lesson tasks and classroom worksheets along with answers for self or peer marking in class. Several lessons include a focus on writing analytically, using the PETER paragraphing framework. The teaching pack culminates in a GCSE-style summative assessment task, which will help you to assess students’ progress in reading and writing. There is also a detailed and comprehensive 15-page scheme of learning to integrate into your KS3 curriculum plans.

Designed for the GCSE French specifications for AQA, Edexcel and WJEC Eduqas, this pack will help students to prepare for their speaking exam. The pack includes activities for the role-play, photo card and general conversation elements of the exam, along with revision materials. Covering all three GCSE French speaking themes, the pack also provides differentiated material for Foundation and Higher tiers, teaching notes and answers. What’s included? worksheets and vocabulary support pair work speaking activities and games model answers to use and adapt exam-style tasks perfect for GCSE French speaking revision. What’s inside? Section one: Role-plays (pages 4-34) Teaching notes Les réseaux sociaux et la technologie La musique Le sport Là où j’habite Au restaurant La santé Les vacances Les études et le travail Answers Section two: Photo cards (pages 35-75) Teaching notes Les amis et la famille Le mariage et la vie en couple Les réseaux sociaux et la technologie Les traditions et les célébrations Les œuvres caritatives et le bénévolat Les problèmes environnementaux La pauvreté et les sans-abris Le travail et les choix de carrière Answers Section three: General conversation (pages 76-101) Teaching notes Asking questions Key ingredients Practice questions Answers Section four: Revision (pages 102-112) Teaching notes Mind-map template Word sort Inference grids Pass the parcel speaking Answers

Written for the Power and conflict cluster of the AQA poetry anthology, Power and conflict student revision is an illustrated revision workbook comprising detailed, handwritten notes and activities to build students’ confidence and develop their understanding of the poems. Perfect for revision and consolidation prior to the exam. What’s included 15 sections (one per poem), each containing illustrated revision notes and engaging revision activities extension tasks focused on language, structure and themes exam-style questions. What’s inside Introduction (page 3) Summary of themes for revision (pages 3-5) Revision notes and activities (pages 6-161) Featured poems: ‘Ozymandias’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley ‘London’ – William Blake ‘The Prelude’ (extract from) – William Wordsworth ‘My Last Duchess’ – Robert Browning ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ – Alfred Lord Tennyson ‘Exposure’ – Wilfred Owen ‘Storm on the Island’ – Seamus Heaney ‘Bayonet Charge’ – Ted Hughes ‘Remains’ – Simon Armitage ‘Poppies’ – Jane Weir ‘War Photographer’ – Carol Ann Duffy ‘Tissue’ – Imtiaz Dharker ‘The Emigrée’ – Carol Rumens ‘Checking Out Me History’ – John Agard ‘Kamikaze’ – Beatrice Garland Answers (page 162) Example revision activities from the student workbook: Zooming in on ‘Ozymandias’ What quotations can you find which give us a hint about the sort of leader Ozymandias was when he was alive? What is the effect of the story being told to us by a person who has not seen the statue for themselves, but is just retelling details of something he was once told about? How does Shelley use sound for effect within the poem? Why do you think the statue is now broken? What possibilities are there? What wider messages are there in the image of this broken statue and its inscription? Why is the statement written on the pedestal ironic? Diamond nine: Find a short quotation to support each of the diamond-nine statements. Explain why the quotation you found supports the statement. Exam-style questions: Compare the ways poets present ideas about the power of nature in ‘Ozymandias’ and ‘Storm on the Island’. Discuss the ways in which poets present human power within ‘Ozymandias’ and one other poem.

Take students on a compelling journey through this famous text and prepare them for the AQA and Edexcel English Literature GCSE. ‘I think this novel is a fantastic exam text, but can be a little intimidating for teachers and students. I wanted the pack to offer a pathway through this challenging text and offer lots of contextual support, so that teachers can easily navigate this stimulating novel. There is a real emphasis on thinking skills and developing alternative viewpoints … : all essential skills for the GCSE exams.’ Annabel Wall, writer Featuring resources and activities to explore context, key themes and plot development, this pack will shed light on this dark and challenging 19th century text. What’s included? 20 lessons Exam-style questions with extracts for relevant exam boards 51 bespoke resources Activities to develop students’ critical reading skills in preparation for the GCSE. What’s inside? Introduction (page 3) Specification summaries (page 4) Chapter 1 - 4 (pages 6-32) Lesson 1 - Robert Walton’s letters Lesson 2 - Symbolism Lesson 3 - Frankenstein’s early life - Chapters 1 and 2 Lesson 4 - Science and discovery Lesson 5 - Mary Shelley and context Exam style questions Chapters 5 - 8 (pages 33-61) Lesson 6 - The creature Lesson 7 - Exploring genre Lesson 8 - Theme of creation Lesson 9 - Femininity in the novel Lesson 10 - Friendship Exam style questions Chapters 9 - 16 (pages 62-87) Lesson 11 - Language and landscape Lesson 12 - Judging the creature Lesson 13 - Biblical references Lesson 14 - Society and prejudice Lesson 15 - Frankenstein and the creature Exam style questions Chapters 17 - 24 (pages 91-126) Lesson 16 - Journeys and travel Lesson 17 - Tension and drama Lesson 18 - Family Lesson 19 - Narrative structure Lesson 20 - The writer’s intention Exam style questions

Mastering grammar: verbs and tenses (Spanish) is designed to teach and review the key verb forms and tenses required by the GCSE curriculum at both Foundation tier and Higher tier. It is suitable for use with key stage 3 and key stage 4 students across a wide range of abilities and is not specific to a particular exam board. The aim of the pack is to make the grammar appear logical and accessible by drawing students’ attention to patterns through fun, communicative activities that are informed by aspects of Gianfranco Conti’s EPI approach, including ‘mind reader’, ‘find someone who’ and ‘pyramid translation’. What’s included? The pack consists of eight units, one on each of the following tenses / verb forms: present simple and present continuous tenses negatives and questions preterite and perfect tenses imperfect tense future tense conditional tense reflexive verbs modal verbs and the passive voice plus a review unit at the end. The units are not intended as schemes of work but rather as a bank of ideas from which you can pick one activity or a series of activities at a level appropriate for your class. The examples used cover a variety of topics so that the activities can be integrated into your teaching at any point in the course. The vocabulary has deliberately been kept very simple, enabling students to concentrate on understanding and practising the grammar. There is particular focus on negatives and questions as examiners’ reports indicate that candidates often struggle with these. Each unit includes: an explanatory PowerPoint awareness-raising activities (‘recognising the tense’) practice activities (ranging from receptive knowledge through structured production to freer practice) assessment tasks (receptive and productive knowledge) answers (for activities with ‘right/wrong’ answers). The PowerPoint teaches the grammar point explicitly, starting with a comparison of the English tense / verb form with the Spanish one. If you have weaker students, you could show them the explanatory PowerPoint after the activities, or not at all. If you have more able students or prefer a more traditional approach, you could show them the PowerPoint explanation before starting the activities. What’s inside? Introduction (pages 4–10) Present tenses (pages 11–24) Negatives and questions (pages 25–37) Preterite and perfect tenses (pages 38–54) Imperfect tense (pages 55–66) Future tense (pages 67–83) Conditional tense (pages 84–95) Reflexive verbs (pages 96–102) Modal verbs and the passive voice (pages 103–113) Verb and tense review (pages 114–122)

Christmas activities for EYFS, KS1 and even KS2! 30 pages of Christmas colouring sheets and Christmas craft activities. Colour, cut out and build templates of Christmas elves, Father Christmas, Christmas trees, wreaths, tree ornaments and Christmas stockings. Find Christmas-themed colour-by-numbers or make gift tags and Christmas bookmarks. Or children may like to colour a Nativity scene or an Advent calendar. Festive fun for EYFS and key stage 1 in the run-up to the holidays! What’s inside? Colour and build an elf Colour and build Father Christman Make a stand-up Christmas tree with decorative ornaments Make a cone Christmas tree Colour a festive wreath Colour by numbers - festive wreath Decorate a Christmas tree Make a 3D Christmas stocking Make Christmas baubles Make an elf hat Colour Christmas wrapping paper DIY holiday gift tags Build a Father Christmas gift box Create Christmas finger puppets Make a 3D Christmas tree topper Colour the Nativity scene Colour Christmas bookmarks Customise Christmas cards Colour and cut out an Advent calendar